Furthermore, their qualifications after graduation from these school are more respected regardless of the quality of the education described by the degree.
Just the other day, there was a job posting on HN for a new health care startup.
It pissed me off, frankly, because the ad was not framed in terms of actual accomplishments or credentials or skills, but in terms of whether or not you attended an elite school. As in it literally stated that they were looking for people from "top 10 schools" or some such thing.
They made it abundantly clear they did not care about someone's actual abilities or skills, only what their pedigree was.
What makes me so angry is that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy at that point. This article is a natural extension of that process.
I loathe recent political trends in the US, but I'm not surprised at all to see the populism that's arisen. Society is dripping with nepotism of various forms.
